Freewheeling if repetitive, Rivette’s anti-thriller feels much emptier than usual as a woman’s sister and an ex-lover are asked to join her in mysterious circumstances.
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Merry-Go-Round (1980)
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Author / Eternality Tan
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Samourai, Le (1967)
This slow-burner suspense classic, and one of Melville’s most influential works, is an excellent character study of the ‘hitman’.
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Four Daughters (2023)
Ben Hania’s new work is a documentary of performative reenactments as actors and real-life subjects break the borders of reality in a bid to confront traumatic memories of a family permanently altered by religious radicalisation.
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Women in Love (1969)
One of Russell’s top-tier films, this sensual adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s novel takes both lofty and earthy notions of ‘love’ into an ever-deepening spiral of psychosexual complications and provocations.
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Boy and the Heron, The (2023)
Still as enchanting and imaginative as ever, even if Miyazaki’s work had to overcome some pacing issues and an anything-goes narrative.
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Constant Factor, The (1980)
A young Polish man living with his dying mother harbours dreams of scaling the Himalayas but has to face rampant corruption at his workplace in Zanussi’s character study of a person caught in the two worlds of morality and mortality.
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Napoleon (2023)
Superbly-executed battle scenes aside, there is something vacant in Scott’s unflattering treatment of one of France’s most infamous historical figures.
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Piscine, La (1969)
This French antecedent to ‘A Bigger Splash’ is a stylish if somewhat monotonous drama oozing sexual tension as a couple and a father-daughter duo temporarily reside in a summer house.
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Killer, The (2023)
An existential crisis plagues a professional hitman after a job gone wrong in Fincher’s serviceable genre exercise, shot in his trademark methodical style that mirrors his protagonist’s attention to process.
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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021)
A charming delight as this Oscar-nominated live-action/stop-motion animation hybrid centers on the exploits and feelings of a talking mollusc shell who lives with his granny, shot as a self-aware ‘documentary’.
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